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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Islamic philosophy"”.
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The Impact of Medieval Debates on the Nature of the Soul on Modern Discussions of Abortion and Euthanasia in Islam
… by Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and Islamic philosophy. The underlying assumption behind this examination is that there will be clearly visible links between the debates in classical Islamic philosophy concerning the nature of human consciousness and the current national debates and …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
… and function of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas of study include the factors involved in the …
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An analysis of Ibn al-'Arabi's al-Insan al-Kamil, the Perfect Individual, with a brief comparison to the thought of Sir Muhammad Iqbal
… thought within the broader context of the philosophy of perfection. Chapter One discusses the transformative knowledge of the Perfect Individual. It analyzes the relationship between reason, revelation, and intuition, and the different roles they play within Islam, Islamic philosophy, and …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
… member of the community of Muslims who founded Islamic Philosophy. In his tenth-century work, On the Perfect State, al-Fārābī tackles questions of eminent importance to society of Muslims still deciding who they were. These questions and their inevitable solutions were, for a time, a source of …
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The economics of benevolence : an Islamic paradigm
This study is an endeavour to propose an Islamic paradigm of the economics of benevolence. It attempts to elicit the behavioural significance of the ubiquity of benevolence as an essential, jure divino, motive force, and the relaxation of the utilitarian assumption of egoistic human motivation. …
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The Zawiya and Shrine Ensemble of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili: A Sufi Analysis
… been coupled with the application of Sufi and Islamic philosophy commentaries. By examining and interpreting the decorative motifs, it has illustrated how they have enhanced the function of each location and are conceptually interrelated. The decorations of the shrine ensemble have been shown …
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A case study into how Muslim stakeholders in England perceive Islamic education at their Islamic school.
… into How Muslim Stakeholders in England Perceive Islamic Education at their Islamic School Abstract Islamic schools in Britain (and the West) are of increasing interest to Muslim parents given their loss of trust and confidence in mainstream schooling. However, questions arise as to the …
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Mulla Sadra and the mind-body problem: A critical assessment of Sadra’s approach to the dichotomy of soul and spirit
… problems in different fields of study such as philosophy, psychology and commentaries of religious texts. This is because the two words are usually used synonymously. The main aim of this research is to investigate whether the human being has an independent spirit in addition to the body and …
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From Rabi'a to Ibn al-Farid : towards some paradigms of the Sufi conception of love
… the significance of Divine Love in the Islamic tradition with reference to Sufis who used the medium of Arabic to communicate their ideas. Divine Love means the mutual love between God and man. It is commonly accepted that the Sufis were the forerunners in writing about Divine Love. …
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Maʿnā, Shuʿūr and Mental Existence: Avicenna’s Theory of Intentionality
The historical origin of the concept of intentionality is commonly traced to scholastic philosophers’ reception of Avicenna’s concept of maʿnā. Recently, many scholars have challenged this narrative and, as a result, initiated a debate among Avicennian scholars about whether maʿnā bears any …
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Mudarabah in Islamic Sharia law
… oftransaction and analyse its implementation by IslamicInvestment Institutions.Being newly developed and still under experimentation,Mudarabah as an investment instrument in its modernapplication has not been the subject of many books orresearch papers. Many books and publications …
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Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī on Mental Existence: Theoretical Explorations and Philosophical Implications
Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī (1730-1791) is an 18th-century erudite Ottoman scholar most prominently known for his paradigmatic intervention in the fields of logic and metaphysics. Based on textual evidence dispersed throughout his corpus, the present dissertation seeks to both systematically and …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
… between revelation and reason, religion and philosophy. In this work al-Fārābī demonstrates that both religion and philosophy are derived from, and dependent upon, divine revelation from Allah to the Prophet. Modern scholars of al-Fārābī interpret his work differently, reading him as an enemy …
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The Philosophical Heritage of Desire for God in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān
<p>This dissertation investigates the role of desire in Ibn Ṭufayl’s <em>Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān</em> through a philosophical investigation of desire from Plotinus to Ibn Ṭufayl. I examine Plotinus’s account of desire for the Good, and I argue that this desire forms the basis of his account of substance, …
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Poetry and Poetics: the Sufi Eye and the Neoplatonic Vision in Jāmī’s Salāmān u Absāl
… neglect by the intelligentsia of the pre-modern Islamic dynasties in Iran, Afghanistan, and India, as well as in contemporary scholarship. My thesis is the first-ever study of this poem within the two important contexts from which it emerged; these are the broader Greco-Roman, Arabic, and Persian …
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Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
I discuss four different aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical views on mathematics, as scattered across his various works. I first explore the negative aspect of his ontology of mathematics, which concerns the question of what mathematical objects (i.e., numbers and geometrical shapes) are not. …